大西洋，2015年10月4日，美国海军F-35C第二阶段海上初始开发测试（DT-II）期间，VX-23“咸狗”空中测试与评估中队一架 F-35C“闪电”II 从艾森豪威尔号航母上起飞。（ATLANTIC OCEAN (Oct. 4, 2015) – An F-35C Lightning II carrier variant joint strike fighter assigned to the Salty Dogs of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23 takes off from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). The F-35C Lightning II Pax River Integrated Test Force is currently conducting follow-on sea trials aboard the Eisenhower.）

大西洋，2015年10月4日，美国海军F-35C第二阶段海上初始开发测试（DT-II）期间，VX-23“咸狗”空中测试与评估中队一架 F-35C“闪电”II 从艾森豪威尔号航母上起飞。（ATLANTIC OCEAN (Oct. 4, 2015) – An F-35C Lightning II carrier variant joint strike fighter assigned to the Salty Dogs of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23 takes off from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). The F-35C Lightning II Pax River Integrated Test Force is currently conducting follow-on sea trials aboard the Eisenhower.）

大西洋，2015年10月4日，美国海军F-35C第二阶段海上初始开发测试（DT-II）期间，VX-23“咸狗”空中测试与评估中队一架 F-35C“闪电”II 准备从艾森豪威尔号航母上起飞。（ATLANTIC OCEAN (Oct. 4, 2015) – An F-35C Lightning II carrier variant joint strike fighter assigned to the Salty Dogs of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23 prepares to take off from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). The F-35C Lightning II Pax River Integrated Test Force is currently conducting follow-on sea trials aboard the Eisenhower.）

大西洋，2015年10月4日，美国海军F-35C第二阶段海上初始开发测试（DT-II）期间，VX-23“咸狗”空中测试与评估中队一架 F-35C“闪电”II 准备从艾森豪威尔号航母上起飞。（ATLANTIC OCEAN (Oct. 4, 2015) – An F-35C Lightning II carrier variant joint strike fighter assigned to the Salty Dogs of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23 prepares to take off from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). The F-35C Lightning II Pax River Integrated Test Force is currently conducting follow-on sea trials aboard the Eisenhower.）

大西洋，2015年10月4日，美国海军F-35C第二阶段海上初始开发测试（DT-II）期间，VX-23“咸狗”空中测试与评估中队一架 F-35C“闪电”II 在艾森豪威尔号航母飞行甲板上加油。（ATLANTIC OCEAN (Oct. 4, 2015) – Sailors refuel an F-35C Lightning II carrier variant joint strike fighter assigned to the Salty Dogs of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23 on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). The F-35C Lightning II Pax River Integrated Test Force is currently conducting follow-on sea trials aboard the Eisenhower.）

大西洋，2015年10月4日，美国海军F-35C第二阶段海上初始开发测试（DT-II）期间，VX-23“咸狗”空中测试与评估中队一架 F-35C“闪电”II 在艾森豪威尔号航母飞行甲板上加油。（ATLANTIC OCEAN (Oct. 4, 2015) – Sailors refuel an F-35C Lightning II carrier variant joint strike fighter assigned to the Salty Dogs of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23 on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). The F-35C Lightning II Pax River Integrated Test Force is currently conducting follow-on sea trials aboard the Eisenhower.）

大西洋，2015年10月4日，美国海军F-35C第二阶段海上初始开发测试（DT-II）期间，VX-23“咸狗”空中测试与评估中队 F-35C“闪电”II 在艾森豪威尔号航母上滑出准备连接弹射器。（Lt. Chris “TJ” Karapostoles, an F-35C Lightning II test pilot assigned to the Salty Dogs of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23, prepares to launch from USS Dwight D. Eisenhower during a morning test flight. Karapostoles and a highly diverse cadre of technicians, maintainers, engineers, logisticians, support staff and test pilots from the Pax River Integrated Test Force (ITF) have conducted nearly 500 flights, logged more than 700 flight hours, and achieved almost 3,400 test points since January 2015.）

大西洋，2015年10月4日，美国海军F-35C第二阶段海上初始开发测试（DT-II）期间，VX-23“咸狗”空中测试与评估中队 F-35C“闪电”II 在艾森豪威尔号航母上滑行准备连接弹射器。（ATLANTIC OCEAN (Oct. 4, 2015) The F-35 Lightning II Pax River Integrated Test Force (ITF) conducts flight number 152 of aircraft 75/CF-05 during the second phase of F-35C carrier suitability and integration developmental testing (DT-II) aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). Based at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, the highly diverse cadre of PAX ITF technicians, maintainers, engineers, logisticians, support staff and test pilots have flown nearly 500 flights, logged more than 700 flight hours, and achieved almost 3,400 test points since January 2015.）

大西洋，2015年10月4日，美国海军F-35C第二阶段海上初始开发测试（DT-II）期间，VX-23“咸狗”空中测试与评估中队 F-35C“闪电”II 在艾森豪威尔号航母上连接弹射器。（ATLANTIC OCEAN (Oct. 4, 2015) Lt. Chris “TJ” Karapostoles prepares to launch from USS Dwight D. Eisenhower during a morning test flight of an F-35C Lightning II. Karapostoles and three other test pilots assigned to the Salty Dogs of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23 are conducting carrier suitability and integration testing of the F-35C carrier variant Joint Strike Fighter.）

大西洋，2015年10月4日，美国海军F-35C第二阶段海上初始开发测试（DT-II）期间，VX-23“咸狗”空中测试与评估中队 F-35C“闪电”II 从艾森豪威尔号航母上弹射。（ATLANTIC OCEAN (Oct. 4, 2015) Lt. Chris “TJ” Karapostoles, an F-35 Lightning II test pilot from the F-35 Pax River Integrated Test Force (ITF), is catapulted from the flight deck of USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). Two F-35Cs assigned to the Salty Dogs of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23 are conducting the second phase of F-35 carrier suitability and integration developmental testing (DT-II) at sea. In 2014, Karapostoles served as a Landing Signal Officer (LSO) during the first phase of testing aboard USS Nimitz (CVN 68).）